Links and Resources
Screensaver
For Windows 95/98/NT
Download Windows 95/98/NT Federation images screensaver
For Mac
Download Apple Macintosh Federation images screensaver
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General resources
Alfred Deakin, the voice of federation
http://www.deakin.edu.au/alfreddeakin
Centenary of Federation 2001
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10492/20021115/index.htm
Online exhibitions
Our Nation's First Capital: Federation and the City of Melbourne 1901-2. An exhibition by the Public Records Office of Victoria.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/exhibs/ournation/index.htm
Belonging: A Century Celebrated. A touring exhibition developed by cultural institutions in Victoria and New South Wales.
http://www.belonging.org/misc-pages/people_place.html
Forging the Nation: Federation - the first 20 years. A travelling exhibition by the Australian War Memorial.
http://www.awm.gov.au/forging/index.htm
Federation: Australian Art and Society, 1901-2001. An exhibition by the National Gallery of Australia.
http://www.nga.gov.au/Federation/Default.cfm
Research resources
The Federation gateway to information by the National Library of Australia.
http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/index.html
See also, article on the iconography of nationhood as depicted in the Watson Papers 'Drawing the New Nation' NLA News, February 2002.
The National Archives of Australia's Federation website.
http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/federation.html
The Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation website provides information and resources on the history of the Chinese in Australia.
http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/
Alfred Deakin, the voice of federation
http://www.deakin.edu.au/alfreddeakin
Education resources
Federation resources for schools and students, including original documents and images
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/fed100/
Imagining Australia 1914-1918: Images of Australian identity in the First World War
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/edu_ww1/
Books on Federation
Helen Irving (ed), The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation Cambridge University Press, 1999.
John Hirst The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth Oxford University Press, 2000
David Headdon and John Williams (eds.) Makers of Miracles: The Cast of the Federation Story Melbourne University Press, 2000
Raymond Evans, Clive Moore, Kay Saunders and Bryan Jamison 1901: Our Future's Past Macmillan, 1997
John Lahey Faces of Federation: An Illustrated History Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 2000
Aedeen Cremin (ed.) 1901 Australian Life at Federation: An Illustrated Chronicle University of New South Wales Press